英语词汇veep的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	veep
词源	veep. From the common abbreviation V.P. for the vice presi- dent of the United States came the informal word veep, which was coined about 1949. The first person to be called a veep was Harry S Truman’s vice president Allen William Barkley (1877– 1956), who hold office from 1949–53. A variation on it is vee-pee
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